Somebody Like You

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"Somebody Like You"
Somebody Like You (Keith Urban single - cover art).jpg
Single by Keith Urban
from the album Golden Road
B-side "If You Wanna Stay"
Released23 July 2002
Genre Country rock [1]
Length
  • 5:23 (album version)
  • 3:41 (radio edit)
Label Capitol Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Keith Urban singles chronology
"Where the Blacktop Ends"
(2001)
"Somebody Like You"
(2002)
"Raining on Sunday"
(2003)

"Somebody Like You" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released in July 2002 as the first single from his third studio album, Golden Road (2002). The song became Urban's second number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, spending six weeks at that position. The song also peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number three in Canada. In December 2009, Billboard named the song as the number-one country song of the 2000s decade. In 2003, the song was remixed for the film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days .

Contents

Content

"Somebody Like You" is set in common time in the key of E major. The verses use a chord pattern of E-A-E-B-A-E, with a pattern of E-A-E-A-Cm-Fm7 on the chorus, and the lead vocal ranges from E4 to G5. [2]

Commercial performance

"Somebody Like You" reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now the Hot Country Songs) chart dated for the week of 19 October 2002, holding that position for six weeks and spending 41 weeks on that chart. [3] It also reached number 23 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart. [4] In December 2009, Billboard ranked "Somebody Like You" as the number-one country song for the 2000s decade. [5] The song was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 31 July 2019. [6] As of September 2015, the song has sold 1.05 million copies in the US. [7] Outside the US, "Somebody Like You" peaked at number three on the Canadian Singles Chart and was certified triple platinum in Australia in 2023. [8]

Music video

The song's music video was released to Country Music Television (CMT) on 7 August 2002. [9] It was directed by Trey Fanjoy, who also directed the video for Urban's late 2000/early 2001 single "But for the Grace of God". [9]

Track listings

Canadian CD single (2002) [10]

  1. "Somebody Like You" – 3:53
  2. "If You Wanna Stay" – 4:27

European CD single (2005) [11]

  1. "Somebody Like You" – 3:57
  2. "You Look Good in My Shirt" – 3:47
  3. "You Are Not Alone Tonight" (acoustic) – 3:40
  4. "Somebody Like You" (sessions at AOL performance) – 3:45

Personnel

Personnel are lifted from the Golden Road liner notes. [12]

Charts

Sales and certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [16] 4× Platinum280,000
United States (RIAA) [6] 2× Platinum1,050,000 [7]

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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